Anna is a cool teacher. She wants her students to do well, she is laid back and she makes her class pretty fun. She gives you the writing and oral assignments before hand! She speaks like 5 languages so at times she can be hard to understand, and she is a little impacient. But overall she is a good teacher and I would defintely take her again.

very nice

The pace of this class is very fast, but she is a great teacher. The tests aren't that bad, and she is happy to help you if you ask for it.

Excellent.

Nice, sometimes a bit unclear about assignments; willing to help.

She's just a great teacher for learning Spanish. If you truly want to master the language Anna is wonderful.

she is awesome and very very helpful. there is a ton of work, but overall she's a great teacher

she's a sweetheart and very helpful. i have taken years of spanish previous but never understood it. the first day in her class, i learned 500x more than any of my previous years combined. shes amazing! im taking her again next semester for 211!

I like Ana! She helps you understand the reasons WHY you need accents marks and so forth. She has a cute spanish accent too (w/ a lisp). There is a lot of homework but it's only to help you understand better. She made me want to keep learning spanish because she makes it fun. I like her and reccommend her! Wish she taught 112.

I love this teacher. I have taken her for three semesters of Spanish and she is the most helpful person ever. She loves her subject and is willing to help everyone. She even is helping me plan my trip to Spain. TAKE HER, you'll learn a lot.

Anna is a great teacher. I had no knowledge of Spanish at all and she helped me become a pretty decent spanish speaker! She encourages students, always offers help. She encouraged me to study abroad and keep my interest in Spanish high. I recommend her for any class, but be prepared to work hard, it is worth it!!

Professora Kalminskaia is one of the best professors I have ever had. She is extremely helpful and understanding. She makes the class easy to understand. Before taking her class I wasn't too interested in Spanish, but now it is one of my passions.

She was great. She really cared about her students and getting them to understand the material. She often would speak in English to teach us grammar. I would like to take another class with her

Ella es dificil. She assigns a lot of tedious hw assignments and has fairly high expectations. You will learn a lot, but the fast pace may lose your interest. Avoid her if you are limited in your Spanish abilities and passion. Also, she can be rather short with people and gets irritated with students regularly. Avoid her. Mother Russia!!

ANNA IS AMAZING! If you have the opportunity to take a class with her, do it! She is very helpful when it comes to teaching difficult grammar topics. She takes extra time out of her day to help in addition to office hours. She is part of the reason why I decided to double major in Spanish. Stop her and for help if you don't understand something

Really great teacher, definitely learned alot. She was also very very helpful, and made me want to spend a year abroad!

Anna was great! She was part of the reason I majored in Spanish, and was really helpful when I didn't understand something. Take her if you can!

She was awesome! She was the reason that I majored in Spanish and that I am going abroad. English and Spanish aren't her first languages so she knows all the tedious grammar that most of us don't even know in english. Very clear with grammar and very willing to help with everything. Great teacher. A lot of written and online homework tho. :(

This woman is a great teacher!! I really enjoyed class and i think i learned ALOT! super funny teacher and really cares alot about her students. try to take her if you can!!

Take this teacher! She's very clear, very nice, and very helpful. You'll learn a lot.

IF you really want to learn the language, shes the one. Her class is hard though. You have online homework, a packet, and you have to correct every quiz and your packet when you get them back. She doesn't give you the answers on the online homework. If youre ready to work hard, take her class. She is really nice though..

You will learn spanish. Do the work. It's worth the effort when your fluency and grammar improve dramatically. It's college, it it was easy, everybody would do it.

She knows what she's doing, and she's very helpful when you need it. BUT her class is extremely difficult. I'm not even going to try and be subtle. It was the hardest Spanish course I've taken. I almost dropped my major., but she told me to stick with it, so I did. She's never mean, and she's always there for her students.

She is very helpful with her students, but you definitely have to be engaged in class. Participating in class is necessary in order to understand the material. There is a lot of work, but it is all to keep practicing Spanish. She isn't too tough of a grader, but no extra credit is offered.

The class isn't easy and the material is the annoying grammar that most people don't know in English. But she is helpful and knowledgeable and after the class you'll feel like you learned a lot.

This professor is amazing. It seems to me that the people who dislike this course were not prepared to think in spanish. Coupled with the amount of homework and reading required (which is really not that much - welcome to college y'all), it could be overwhelming. especially if you barely paid attention in the previous classes.

Kalminskaia was a fantastic teacher. She explained things well and was very helpful in explaining things. This class requires hard work, but it's worth it.

Kalminskaia is a super tough teacher, but honestly you will learn a lot, and I found that if you needed help, asking her would help ALOT for me. She was really accessible, and I would suggest taking her class, especially if you're interested in actually learning Spanish, even though it may be a lot of work.

She is a tough teacher, but is really accessible. Take her class if you want to learn Spanish properly!!!

Anna is a great teacher- she is always willing to help during office hours, goes out of her way to make sure you understand. She expects you to do work on your own, which some lazy students hate, but made it so much better when you learned the material. I took her for all four semesters of Spanish! She is the reason I know spanish!! She rocks!

She is kind of an intimidating teacher, but as a person she is incredibly sweet and helpful. She's really smart and knows everything that there is to know about Spanish. If you want to learn the language, take her. It's more work than the average Spanish class is, but it's worth it. It really isn't as hard as everyone says, just harder than usual.

She has high expectations and she does indeed expect her students to know the material. She's nice if you actually talk to her, but she will not like you if you are lazy and do not participate. Honestly, she's hard on you now so you won't be hard on yourself when you can't speak basic Spanish. You also must bring the txtbk to every class.

I really liked Kalminskaia. One of the reasons is because majority of the time we just spoke Spanish with each other. She moves quickly and expects her students to know the material beforehand, which sucked for people whose first time taking Spanish ever was in her class. Just look at the stuff you're going over before going to class.

I LOVE HER! She really wants you to do well and has really flexible office hours. There's no excuse to do poorly in her class because she gives plenty of opportunity for corrections and she will clarify any questions. I hope I can take her again.

Although majority of the time she does speak in Spanish, learning a language is not supposed to be easy. You have to talk and hear Spanish in order to truly learn it and be exposed. Yes, the class is challenging, but if you are willing to put in an effort, she is always willing to help and gives good feedback. I think she is an excellent professor.

The textbook was a lifesaver! She expects you to learn the information on your own and then class is more of a review. For a first year class she expects a lot from you. But if you do the homework and ask questions you'll be okay. She is willing to help you on anything you need if you ask nicely. Class is hard so you must pay attention.

She has a reputation for assigning a lot of work--and that's probably true--but I learned a lot from the class. You do have to follow along with the syllabus and keep up, but her vocab quizzes aren't very hard if you're a decent student. I took a conversation course with her, and my spoken Spanish improved greatly as a result.

Anna is a great professor! It is true that you have a lot of work but you are in college. If you need any help she meets with you during her office hours and is very helpful. She can seem intimidating at first but if you talk to her and get to know her she really isn't. I learned a lot from her and hope to be able to take another one of her courses

This professor is so kind and she loves to crack jokes and relate to her students. Overall a solid choice for a professor. The in-class work is pretty minimal and as long as you participate, she will love you! If you don't know something, she is very understanding and tries to help you out.

prof. kalminskaia is definitely a demanding professor but she clearly puts in so much effort into teaching and went above and beyond even tho the class was virtual. she tried to make us feel comfortable and pushed for class participation

Prof. Kalminskaia is a great prof! Even in the difficulty of an online setting, she really does try to give the best feedback possible. I'm looking forward to having her again in the future. Do your best in the class and you will succeed.

She is a wonderful professor who does everything she can to make sure her students understand the content. Yes there is a lot of HW, this is because it is a LANGUAGE course and that is the nature of the subject. She is not a tough grader on tests; learn the material though. She does respect time and is understanding with communication.

Professor Kalminskaia gives a lot of homework that you have to do before she gives the lecture on the topic. But the homework is mainly graded on participation, 3 tests that are average difficulty but if you do the study guide it is helpful (it also counts as extra credit). The grade is based on writing so if you can write well you will do fine.